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 It may also be a reference to {{w|celestial spheres}}, an early concept trying to explain apparent movement of planets and stars.
 |-
-| ...
+| '''Star Destroyer'''<br/>''from'' <code>star-destroyer-a</code> ''to'' <code>star-destroyer-i</code>
-| ...
+| (18192, -130000)
-| ...
+| To get here, launch from the crack in the Crystal Sphere.
 | ...
-| ...
+This is a gigantic starship; it could have barely fit within the Crystal Sphere. It is located out of the Sphere, right up from the crack, but it can't be reached without the Hyperdrive. It has many corridors and chambers inside, and a lot of people, objects and other features both inside and outside of it. The gravity of the Sphere is still strong around here, but the starship has its own center of gravity; the "down" direction generally points towards the ventral part of the starship, but not quite, making orientation somewhat difficult as the surfaces supposed to be level seem to tilt to the left near the stern and to the right near the bow of the starship. Below it, down a stream of torpedoes fired from a turred, there's a much smaller starhip.
 |}

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 This is the other key planet to the game puzzle. It is apparently the round part ripped off the Subway Planet, but drawn not to scale. The tunnels inside the planet roughly correspond to the Boston part of the scheme in [[1196: Subways]], but with few additions (e.g. Union Sq, Mattapan). The codename comes from the abbreviation of {{w|Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority}}.
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 | ...

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 Obviously, it's also a reference to [[1196: Subways]]
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 This is a huge planet with a subway system connecting places named after U.S. cities, similar to the one from [[1196: Subways]]. In the area where Boston should be according to that system, there is a giant round hole with rugged sides consisting of a lot of broken planks. There's a black hole inside, off the center, in the Washington, D.C. area. There are many people and features both on the surface and within subway tunnels.
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-This is a key planet to solve the puzzle in the game, and contains several out of many references to {{w|Boston}} (in many meanings of the name) and the {{w|Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}, which currently is located in {{w|Cambridge, Massachusetts}}, but was founded in 1861 in Boston.
+This is a key planet to solve the puzzle in the game, and contains several out of many in-game references to {{w|Boston}} (in many meanings of the name) and the {{w|Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}, which currently is located in {{w|Cambridge, Massachusetts}}, but was founded in 1861 in Boston.
 Obviously, it's also a reference to [[1196: Subways]]

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 | '''What If? Planet'''<br/><code>gravity-earth</code>
-| (-46000, -24000)
+| (22000, 34000)
 | To get here, launch from the two people explaining where Boston is on Origin, the left of Stonehenge on the Round Planet, or the left rim of the Guitar Ship.
 | This is a huge, round planet with many bodies of water. The planet contains several scenes from ''[[what if]]? '' and [[2712: Gravity]]. Megan and Cueball are floating inside a small space in the center of the planet.
 | This is an almost exact copy of the Earth planet from [[2712: Gravity]], however a few scenes and all text were removed.
 |-
 | ...

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 | It's a big planet with weak gravity, a lot of grass, and many dinosaur figures, some repeating a few times.
+|
-This is a reference to the 1993 {{w|Jurassic Park (film)|''Jurassic Park''}} film and the related {{w|Jurassic Park|media franchise}}. It contains images of dinosaurs taken from the [https://www.qwantz.com/ Dinosaurs] web comic, which, similarly to xkcd, uses a random string of letters for its domain name: <code>quantz.com</code>. It also reflects Randal's avid interest in [[:Category:Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]].
+This is a reference to the 1993 {{w|Jurassic Park (film)|''Jurassic Park''}} film and the related {{w|Jurassic Park|media franchise}}. It contains images of dinosaurs taken from the [https://www.qwantz.com/ Dinosaurs] web comic, which, similarly to xkcd, uses a random string of letters for its domain name: <code>quantz.com</code>. It also reflects Randal's avid interest in [[:Category:Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]. This is an exact copy of the Dinosaur Planet from [[2712: Gravity]].
 |-
 | '''Comet 67P'''<br/><code>67p</code>
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+|
 This is a reference to the 2004&ndash;2016 {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} spacecraft mission, which was the first to place a lander ({{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}}) on a comet core. The mission was also commemorated in [[1446: Landing]] and the spacecraft are mentioned in [[1402: Harpoons]] and [[1740: Rosetta]].
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 ! Explanation
 |-
-| '''Starting Planet'''
+| '''Starting Planet'''<br/><code>tiny-world</code>
 |  (6024, -8976)
 | To get here, click the "Home" button in the lower right corner of the comic.
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 |-
-| '''Origin'''
+| '''Origin'''<br/><code>origin</code>
 | (3096, -5904)
 | To get here, launch from Beret Guy saying "Wow!" on the Starting Planet.
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 |-
-| '''Hollow Planet'''
+| '''Hollow Planet'''<br/><code>hollow-shell</code>
 | (-13952, 1848)
 | To get here, launch from the St. Louis Arch on Origin.
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 |-
-| '''Round Planet'''
+| '''Round Planet'''<br/><code>orb</code>
 | (-19154, -7288)
 | To get here, launch from the tower with an orb on it on Origin or the sign on the Hollow Planet.
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+|
 |-
-| '''Uzumaki'''
+| '''Uzumaki'''<br/><code>uzumaki</code>
 | (-3904, -26904)
 | To get here, launch from Origin's spiral landmark, the sign on the Hollow Planet, or below the plane-towed banner on the Round Planet.
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 | The shape of the planet is inspired by the {{w|manga}} {{w|Uzumaki}} by {{w|Junji Ito}}.
 |-
-| '''Guitar Ship'''
+| '''Guitar Ship'''<br/><code>guitar-ship</code>
 | (-12000, -30000)
 | To get there, launch from Uzumaki, a little to the left of the caffeine molecule item.
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 | This is a reference to the cover art of the album {{w|Boston (album)|Boston}} by the like-named American {{w|Boston (band)|rock band}}. It's one of many references to {{w|Boston}} in the game.
 |-
-| '''Spacetime Soccer Field'''
+| '''Spacetime Soccer Field'''<br/><code>soccerfield</code>
 | (6048, 4048)
 | To get here, launch from Origin, from the pyramid with a soccer ball on top of it.
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 The space soccer field utilizes the concept from [[2705: Spacetime Soccer]], but inversed: in the original comic the center point of the field was located in a gravity well, causing the ball to be pulled away from the goals; here the goals are located close to the center of the planet, so the ball naturally tries to fall towards them, probably making the game more interesting.
 |-
-| '''Saturn'''
+| '''Saturn'''<br/><code>saturn</code>
 | (2600, 14000)
 | To get here, launch from the pyramid with Saturn on it on Origin. If you see the Spacetime Soccer Field, you're too far left.
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 | It is a reference to [[2513: Saturn Hexagon]]
 |-
-| '''Andal'''
+| '''Andal'''<br/><code>platform-planet</code>
 | (12048, 14048)
 | To get there launch from a monument on Origin, featuring a round shape with a small "T" on top.
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 | A reference to ''{{w|Animorphs}}'' book series featuring fictional sapient species of [https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Andalite Andalites]. Two such (or similar) creatures can be found on the planet. In the original books, the planet the Andalites come from is unnamed.
 |-
-| '''Projection of Earth'''
+| '''Projection of Earth'''<br/><code>earth-map</code>
 | (-15808, 22192)
 | To get there by follow the sign on the hollow planet or launch from the Earth map monument on Origin.
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 | Probably a reference to [[977: Map Projections]] or, more generally, to the Randall's obsession about [[:Category:Maps|maps]].
 |-
-| '''Voyager 1'''
+| '''Voyager 1'''<br/><code>voyager-1</code>
 | (1606, -14282)
 | To get here, launch from the "Receiving transmission" communication device near the spiral landmark on Origin.
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+|
 |-
-| '''Voyager 2'''
+| '''Voyager 2'''<br/><code>voyager-2</code>
 | (10682, -5172)
 | To get here, launch from the "Receiving transmission" communication device near the spider landmark on Origin.
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+|
 |-
-| '''SafetySat'''
+| '''SafetySat'''<br/><code>safetysat</code>
 | (17024, 1024)
 | To get here, launch from the cell tower on Origin.
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 | This is a reference to [[1992: SafetySat]].
 |-
-| '''Shuttle Skeleton'''
+| '''Shuttle Skeleton'''<br/><code>space-shuttle</code>
 | (-30200, 14576)
 | To get here, launch from the Shuttle Skeleton landmark on Origin or in the northwestern direction from Alaska on the Projection of Earth.
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 | This is a reference to [[2630: Shuttle Skeleton]].
 |-
-| '''Giant Spider'''
+| '''Giant Spider'''<br/><code>spider</code>
 | (26982, -8714)
 | To get here, launch from the spider landmark on Origin.
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 | [[:Category:Spiders|Spiders]] is a recurring theme on xkcd.
 |-
-| '''Diffraction Spikes Star'''
+| '''Diffraction Spikes Star'''<br/><code>diffraction</code>
 | (-19944, 11240)
 | To get here, launch from the back of the left "hand" of the Shuttle Skeleton or the north of Alaska.
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 | This is a reference to [[2762: Diffraction Spikes]].
 |-
-| '''Roche Lobe Earth'''
+| '''Roche Lobe Earth'''<br/><code>earth-roche</code> ''and'' <code>normal-moon</code>
 | (-9952, -3952)
 | To get there, launch from the like-shaped statue on Origin.
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+|
 |-
-| '''Dark Matter Planet'''
+| '''Dark Matter Planet'''<br/><code>dark-matter</code>
 | (-2892, 2640)
 | To get here, launch from the goal on the half of the field with just one person on it on Spacetime Soccer Field.
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 This is also a reference to [[2186: Dark Matter]]
 |-
-| '''Jurassic Park Planet'''
+| '''Jurassic Park Planet'''<br/><code>gravity-qwantz</code>
 | (20000, 11000)
 | To get here, launch from the dinosaur on Origin or from the Andalites on Andal.